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PUCCINI, GIACOMO. Autograph letter signed ("G Puccini") to Sybil Seligman, Torre del Lago, Toscana, 1 October 1907. 1 page, 8vo, in red ink on blue imprinted stationery, slightly faded, professionally double-matted on a gilt backing with an early photographic portrait and engraved label, enclosed in fine giltwood frame, in Italian. Unexamined out of frame. With full English transcription in matching giltwood frame.
COMPOSING "GIRL OF THE GOLDEN WEST"
A fine letter to one of the composer's closest friends concerning of his work on Girl of the Golden West, while Madame Butterfly is acclaimed all over Europe. "I would recommend Venice, but I think you would be quite happy at Villa d'Este also....I sweeten things!! The 'Girl' is being processed in the Factory. Z. [Carlo Zangarini, Puccini's librettist] has now done the outline for Acts 1 and 3, but the latter is not yet going very well. I shall tell you about it later. At Berlin the second performance of [Madame] Butterfly was a great triumph like the first; and this week there are three more performances. I have not heard anything about the Prague premiere yesterday evening. Tell me how I ought to write to Steinway, and what reduction he will give me on the piano. Tell me, if you can, how the orchestra managed 'Butt'[erfly] in London and who was conducting....In Lucca everything ended in triumph. Partially published in Vincent Seligman, Puccini Among Friends, p.146. (2)
COMPOSING "GIRL OF THE GOLDEN WEST"
A fine letter to one of the composer's closest friends concerning of his work on Girl of the Golden West, while Madame Butterfly is acclaimed all over Europe. "I would recommend Venice, but I think you would be quite happy at Villa d'Este also....I sweeten things!! The 'Girl' is being processed in the Factory. Z. [Carlo Zangarini, Puccini's librettist] has now done the outline for Acts 1 and 3, but the latter is not yet going very well. I shall tell you about it later. At Berlin the second performance of [Madame] Butterfly was a great triumph like the first; and this week there are three more performances. I have not heard anything about the Prague premiere yesterday evening. Tell me how I ought to write to Steinway, and what reduction he will give me on the piano. Tell me, if you can, how the orchestra managed 'Butt'[erfly] in London and who was conducting....In Lucca everything ended in triumph. Partially published in Vincent Seligman, Puccini Among Friends, p.146. (2)